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- 8281: Effects Of Excessive Pesticide
- ... properly used. Pest problems are not new; in fact, they have been around as long as agriculture itself. But the pest pressure faced by farmers is now as great as it ever was: the world's fast-growing human population needs to be fed from an always shrinking base of agricultural land, and the substantial damage that can be inflicted by pests (e.g. insects, diseases, weeds, rodents, birds) on crops ... 1940s saw the development of 2,4-D (2,4-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), an organic compound that is a highly selective systemic herbicide. Such herbicides are now widely used. Several such compounds, including 2,4,5-T (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), have been banned by the Environmental Protection Agency as potentially dangerous. 2,4,5-T was used in Agent Orange (a defoliant employed by U.S. forces in Vietnam), which has been linked to some diseases suffered by veterans. Since Agent Orange, heightened awareness of possible ecological and health ...
- 8282: Does Science Explain All?
- ... beginning there was darkness. Then there was light. Then there was consciousness. Then there were questions and then there was religion. Religions sprouted up all over the world as a response to some of humanity's most troubling questions and fears. Why are we here? Where do we come from? Why does the world and nature act as it does? What happens when you die? Religions tended to answer all these questions with stories of gods and goddesses and other supernatural forces that were beyond the understanding of humans. Magic, in it's essence, were the powers wielded by these superior beings that caused the unexplainable to happen. Fast forward a few thousand years to the present. In our age and time there is little left unexplained. Science ... and wipe out entire civilizations with the push of a button. It is becoming more and more widespread in that people are putting their faith in science above that in the gods. What parent wouldn't rather bring their sick child to a doctor than have faith in the healing power of some mystical entity that may or may not exist. However strong and almost perfect the view of science ...
- 8283: The Existence of God
- ... fact that said being can not be considered not to exist, would thereby make it greater than any that could be considered not to exist. This would in all reality be the secret to God's omnipotence in Anlsem's eyes. Another point that he stresses is that just be understanding the concept of what a God is, you are proving his existence. This is because if you understand who God is, you can also ... to be and not to be. So if there is the possibility that everything at one time or another cannot-be, then at one time there was nothing, because everything that could've been wasn't. Yet if there was nothing at one time, then there was nothing that could be, and so there would still be nothing. Therefore there had to be something that existed to cause all the ...
- 8284: Jedediah Hotchkiss
- ... the entire battle. A young man by the name of Jedediah Hotchkiss. Hotchkiss was born in New York in 1828 and moved here much later after accepting a tutoring position for a wealthy Grittoes family's children. This was a small school with only 52 students. Not long after opening the school was closed due to the break out of the Civil War. When war broke out the New York born Hotchkiss cast his lot with the confederacy and saw service in western Virginia. Hotchkiss the suffered from near death bout with Typhoid and upon recovering was reassigned as T.J. "Stonewall" Jackson's scout and mapmaker. After Jackson's death in Waynesboro for the entire battle. (Bowman, V1 177-178) The date was February 28,1865 when the Confederate Generals stationed in Swoope received word that Sheridans ...
- 8285: Assisted Suicides
- ... entitled "38 Assisted Suicides," many people believe that when it comes to matters such as life and death, there are no options. The decision to live or die is made by God. Judith Curren didn't agree. With the assistance of Dr. Kevorkian, she died and the retired pathologist presided at his 38th assisted suicide, fairly confident that he will not be prosecuted or even suffer public disapproval. Many of the ... from the beginning, even among observers who believe that the desperately sick should be given help to die, there have been questionable cases. For example, a woman in her fifties allegedly suffering from early Alzheimer's disease was fit enough to play tennis with her adult son shortly before dying. Another-said to have had a painful, progressive illness-was found to be free of disease by the county medical examiner ... and who then delivers her to Dr. Kevorkian? Pain is controllable. Depression and fatigue can be ameliorated by drugs. Violent husbands can be prosecuted and divorced. Suicide in such a case is unreasonable. A doctor's help in that course is unconscionable." I had mixed feelings on this editorial because I take into consideration both sides of the argument. On one hand I understand Judith Curren's decision. I can ...
- 8286: How Tv Impacts Teens
- ... This is a phrase that teenagers hear everyday. Where do they hear this? They hear it on TV. It is a phrase used in a commercial for beer. This phrase is used to attract peoples attention including teenagers. This is one of many problems with TV these days. TV teaches teens the wrong material. Some of the other problems with TV include violence and dialogue. When it comes to commercials ... there are also commercials for beer and cigarettes. These are items that could be fatal in some cases. Yet, these items are advertised on TV for teenagers to see. Commercials for beer or cigarettes arent to pursue just adults, but to pursue adolescents as well. The tobacco companies and alcohol companies know that teens are the age group who are most vulnerable, therefore these large industries target their ads towards teens. For example, there is a commercial for Molson Ice a brand of beer that use teens in their ad. The ads scenario is a high school party where teens are having fun while drinking beer. So what are teenagers going to think? They will think that if they drink beer they will have as much ...
- 8287: Josef Mengele
- ... deeds, what was their life like? That is what this paper will focus on. What went on inside the pathology lab, and what went on inside the pathologist. Millions of people passed through Auschwitz, Mengele's domain, during the Holocaust. Early in 1945, it was recorded that over 700,000 people were currently "living" (dying) there. Over 1 million people were killed at Auschwitz, about a fifth of all the Jews ... chicken and potatoes, while the prisoners were starving and dying. Mengele served many purposes at Auschwitz, he made selections of the newly arriving prisoners, those who could work to the right, and those who couldn't to the left (gas chambers), and he performed experiments. Mengele wanted to create a "pure" Aryan race, and to make German mothers give birth to as many German babies as possible. Doing selections gave Mengele ... the real world one twin might die at 7 while the other might die at 77, but in this closed environment he could study twins who had died at the same moment. Many of Mengele's experiments were based on literally creating a blond hair blue eyed race. One reason why Mengele might have been obsessed with "German" looks is because his brown hair and eyes, and his gypsy-esque ...
- 8288: Things In The Hitcher
- ... saw, and it still freaks me out everytime I watch it. Rutger Hauer plays a hitchhiking nut who accepts rides from people and gives them something in return: a slow and painful death. The Hitcher's next target is a young man named Jim Hallsey (C Thomas Howell) who pretty much kicks ass. The Hitcher tries his usual methods of scaring the piss out of his victim, but Jim isn't taking any of his shit. They wind up playing a "deadly game of cat-and-mouse" while the bodies pile up along the roadside. Convincing performances by EVERYONE make this movie one of the great ... you've already seen this movie, right? If not you should head over to DISNEY.com instead. Because this movie is definitely a prerequisite for any horror fan or DVD collector in general. So here's the review of the DVD itself. VIDEO: The movie is presented in normal non-anamorphic widescreen only, but that is just fine with me. It looks fantastic, with the blood really standing out against ...
- 8289: Midsummer Night Dream
- Decisions that You Make There are many occurrences in one's life where a difficult choice or decision falls into our hands. We need to deal with the situation and view it from all possible perspectives. Choices and dilemmas are just a part of everyday life. Hermia from the novel, Midsummer's Night Dream, was faced with such a dilemma and wasn't quite sure how to handle the situation. There has been a time in my life where I was faced with a decision. I was put in the position to choose, just like Hermia was. ...
- 8290: One Evil Summer
- One Evil Summer It s finally summer and a time to do what you want and have as much fun as you can. Well that s not the case with Amanda Conklin s who lives in a cruel and crazy town on a very scary street, Fear Street. Amanda was going threw a lot of bad tuff times, like when the town accused her of lighting an ...
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